The Sikaiana language is an endangered Polynesian outlier language spoken on Sikaiana in the Central Solomon Islands, about ninety miles east of the Malaita Island in Polynesia. There are about 730 speakers of this language left in the world, a very low number for any language.

Sikaiana is legally also part of the Kingdom of Hawaii, however this has not been recognized by the United States and it was accidentally omitted from the US annexation of Hawaii.  The argument could be made that Sikaiana is the only remaining territory of the Kingdom of Hawaii as the Solomon Islands were collectively granted sovereignty from the British, who were the previous colonial invaders to control Hawaii prior to the US.

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